Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N.L., Ryan, M., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Brennan, R., Charli-Joseph, L., Fernandez-Gimenez, M.E., Galvin, K.A., Goldstein, B.E., Haller, T., Hill, R., Munera, C., Nel, J.L., Osterblom, H., Reid, R.S., Riechers, M., Spierenburg, M., Tengo, M., Bennett, E., Brandeis, A., Chatterton, P., Cockburn, J.J., Cvitanovic, C., Dumrongrojwatthana, P., Duran, A.P., Gerber, J.-D., Green, J.M.H., Gruby, R., Guerrero, A.M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Montana, J., Steyaert, P., Zaehringer, J.G., Bednarek, A.T., Curran, K., Fada, S.J., Hutton, J., Leimona, B., Pickering, T. & Rondeau, R. 2021. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422

Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productiv...

Calderon-Contreras, R., Balvanera, P., Trimble, M., Langle-Flores, A., Jobbagy, E., Maass Moreno, M., Marcone, J., Mazzeo, N., Munoz Anaya, M.M., Ortiz-Rodriguez, I.A., Perevochtchikova, M., Avila-Foucat, S., Bonilla-Moheno, M., Clark, L.B., Equihua, M., Ayala-Orozco, B., Bueno, I., Hensler, L., Leyva Aguilera, J.C., Martinez Ramos, M., Mercon, J., Azahara Mesa-Jurado, M., Osterblom, H., Pacheco-Vega, R., Perez Alcantara, B., Perez-Maqueo, O., Porter-Bolland, L., Quijas, S., Quiroz Rosas, L.E., Rios Patron, E., Rocha-Gordo, J.C., Rojo Negrete, I.A., Piedad Romero-Duque, L., Rosell, J.A., Scheffer, M., Vazquez, L.-B., Villada Canela, M. & Velazquez, M. 2021. A regional PECS node built from place-based social-ecological sustainability research in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ecosystems and People doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.2000501

Sustainability requires a combination of meaningful co-production of locally relevant solutions, synthesis of insights gained across regions, and increased cooperation between science, policy and practice. The Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) has been coordinating Place-Based Social-Ecological Sustainability Research (PBSESR) across the globe and emphasizes the need for regional scientific nodes from diverse b...

Spijkers, J., Singh, G.G., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Osterblom, H., Cumming, G.S. & Morrison, T.H. 2021. Identifying predictors of international fisheries conflict. Fish and Fisheries 22(4), 834–850.

Marine capture fishery resources are declining, and demand for them is rising. These trends are suspected to incite conflict, but their effects have not been quantitatively examined. We applied a multi-model ensemble approach to a global database of international fishery conflicts between 1974 and 2016 to test the supply-induced scarcity hypothesis (diminishing supplies of fishery resources increase fisheries conflict), the de...

Sumaila, U., Skerritt, D., Schuhbauer, A., Villasante, S., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Sinan, H., et.al. 2021. WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1680

Sustainably managed wild fisheries support food and nutritional security, livelihoods, and cultures. Harmful fisheries subsidies—government payments that incentivize overcapacity and lead to overfishing—undermine these benefits yet are increasing globally. World Trade Organization (WTO) members have a unique opportunity at their ministerial meeting in November to reach an agreement that eliminates harmful subsidies. We—a group...